Paces

TL:DR To avoid catastrophic climate change, the built environment will be shifted to climate positive green infrastructure in the next 2 decades. Paces enables more green infrastructure to be profitably built, faster and in the right places. The Problem We need to build trillions worth of clean energy and transport infrastructure to have any chance of a sub 1.5 degree world. Right now, it is really hard to build these projects. Nimbyism, zoning and grid capacity issues mean that only 1 in 5 green infrastructure projects are actually built, costing $18 Billion in canceled US projects per year. It's a mess. The Solution Paces enables more green infrastructure like solar and hydrogen to be built profitably, accelerating a climate positive built environment. We collect zoning, permitting, grid and environmental data and calculate at the parcel level and help green infrastructure project developers and investors understand if the project makes sense for a particular parcel. If it does we also calculate the project’s profitability versus another climate positive use case.

@james_mcwalter congrats on the launch! Looks very interesting -- in a former life I worked on redevelopment projects and have some friends who still do. I'm going to mention your product to them to see what they think. Besides providing a correlation of data, how does your product address and overcome things like: Nimbyism, zoning and grid capacity issues?